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ADSL on its last legs in South Africa

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  By   Daniel Puchert Partially state-owned telecommunications company Telkom announced in its financial results for the year ending 31 March 2025 that its ADSL subscribers had more than halved to under 30,000. According to the company’s operational data, ADSL lines decreased from 64,959 in March 2024 to 29,770. This 54.2% decline highlights that the legacy broadband technology is slowly approaching the end of the road. Telkom’s ADSL business peaked at the end of March 2016 with 1.01 million subscribers — two years after fibre upstart Vumatel  broke ground in Parkhurst . What followed was a sharp decline in Telkom ADSL subscribers. Customers connected to its copper networks decreased by more than 500,000 over the next four years. This was partly driven by Telkom itself, which began actively switching off its copper network in some neighbourhoods. If it did not have fibre in the area, it would offer a “fixed line lookalike” wireless service that ran over its cellular ...
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Invictus: Zimbabwe’s moment of oil discovery awaits

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Invictus: Zimbabwe’s moment of oil discovery awaits OPINION  /  26 NOVEMBER 2018, 09:00AM  /  BHEKI GILA Ambassador Bheki Gila. Photo: Supplied Zimbabwe’s oil find is big news for a number of reasons not least of which is the timing of its announcement. Photo: AP Ambassador Bheki Gila. Photo: Supplied Zimbabwe’s oil find is big news for a number of reasons not least of which is the timing of its announcement. Photo: AP 1 2 Zimbabwe’s oil find, is big news. It is big news for a number of reasons not least of which is the timing of its announcement. Notwithstanding the dispute of the size of the find and the stage of the discovery, the possibility portends the greatest economic development in the early post-Mugabe era. The currency woes that have plagued the people of that country and its government a decade ago, have reared their menacing head once more. And not for the first time. They come as seasons and arrive with the wr...
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Zimbabwe: ED Must Beware of Flattering Chiwenga, Says Mafume

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By Anna Chibamu MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume says Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's weekend vows opposition leader Nelson Chamisa would never rule Zimbabwe at the expense of President Emmerson Mnangagwa were signs of the VP's own ambitions to dislodge his boss from the lofty job. Addressing Zanu PF followers during President Mnangagwa's "thank you" rally in Zvimba on Saturday, Chiwenga savaged Chamisa, describing the Apostolic Faith Mission pastor as a false prophet and a "little bishop". "In all the coming elections, no one is going to remove Shumba Murambwi (President Mnangagwa)," he said. "We are here until he feels it is the time to go and when we have fully restored our country to its former glory and when everything is in order. No one must dream of being the President." Chiwenga added, "Politics of child's play will not help us in any way. Shumba Murambwi is there to stay because he is an anointed...
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Argentina promotes social integration by hosting Dwarf Copa America

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2018 Dwarf Copa America Brazil's Daniel Guimaraes celebrates after scoring against Morocco during a Dwarf Copa America football match at Ferro Carril Oeste Club in Buenos Aires. 21  of 25
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Barcelona become the first sports team in history to pay players more than £10million a year on average

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Barcelona have become the first team to pay players more than £10m on average Real Madrid, Juventus and Manchester United are in the top 12 paying teams The NBA remains the best paid league, followed by the Indian Premier League The Premier League is still the best paid football league in the world  By  NICK HARRIS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED:  22:30 GMT, 24 November 2018  |  UPDATED:  01:51 GMT, 25 November 2018           e-mail   5 shares 23 View comments Barcelona have become the first sports team in history with average basic first-team pay of more than £10million a year. The Spanish giants, with  Lionel Messi  as their talisman and best paid player, are spending £10,454,259 per man in the 2018-19 season, excluding extras such as signing-on fees and bonuses, according to a report to be published on Monday. The 2018 edition of the Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) ...
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Which countries have the world’s largest coal reserves?

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  Visual Capitalist Elements   | September 15, 2021 | 8:58 am   Intelligence   Australia   USA   Coal   The Countries With the Largest Coal Reserves Cheap and abundant coal remains one of the largest sources of energy worldwide, even as governments set out goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While jurisdictions in Europe and North America have been phasing out coal use in power generation, it has been on the rise in Asia. China and India are scrambling to provide electricity to a growing population and relying on coal power plants to meet demands despite the environmental costs. SIGN UP FOR THE ENERGY DIGEST Sign Up This infographic takes a look into the  BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2021 , and the 11 countries that make up  89%  of the coal reserves globally. Coal Reserves, by Country While countries need to phase out coal by 2040 to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC, consumption in key ...
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MOTORS MARINE MAY 7, 2021 Boat of the Week: This 171-Foot Super-Luxe Sportfishing Yacht Is the Largest in the World

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  The epic vessel is a 30-knot "battlewagon" designed to chase marlin, swordfish and sailfish. It's also decidedly lavish. By  HOWARD WALKER           Courtesy Vripack To hook the world’s biggest fighting fish, in the words of Chief Brody in the classic 1975 movie  Jaws , “You’re going to need a bigger boat.” Privately owned  fishing  boats won’t come any bigger than this astonishing 171-foot super-luxury sportfisherman, set to claim the title of “World’s Largest Sportfish Superyacht.” Designed by Dutch naval architects  Vripack , and soon to start construction at the Royal Huisman yard in the Netherlands, Project 406 as it’s currently codenamed, will be a 30-knot “battlewagon,” designed to chase marlin, swordfish and sailfish to the ends of the earth. “Project 406 is a sportfishing machine on steroids,” Vripack co-creative director Bart M. Bouwhuis told  Robb Report . “It has the proportions of a typical American sportfishing ...
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This New Ultralight Aircraft May Be World’s Fastest Single-Engine Business Jet

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  The speedy LAR-01's automotive interior adds comfort and luxury. Plus: The wings detach, so the jet can be stored in a home garage. By  MICHAEL VERDON           Courtesy Flaris The  Flaris  LAR-01 has a number of striking stats, including being a ton lighter (literally) than its competitors, along with an unusually short-field landing capability, and detachable wings. But its most impressive number is the 250-knot true air speed, which its designers say makes it the world’s fastest business jet among single-engine very light jets and turboprop aircraft. Flaris says recent tests “confirmed the assumptions made previously” about the effectiveness of multiple systems, including its Garmin G600 avionics and Flaris Flight Assistance System flight computer, as well as the landing gear and emergency parachute system. But it also claims more impressive stats like the 250-knot TSA at 10,000 feet. Its 6,000-feet-per-minute climb rate, adds the compan...
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